Chairman: Is there anything else that you would like to add to your answer?

Boris: No I think that Dee is completely wrong...

Dee: It's in your budget

The Mayor's denial appears to rest on the claim that the Met's current "civilianisation" programme will increase the proportion of police officers brought out on to the streets.

However, how the Met chooses to use it's officers is a separate issue to how many officers the Mayor is actually prepared to pay for.

As Dee Doocey said after today's meeting:

"The last thing London needs is a reduction in police numbers, but that is exactly what Boris Johnson is planning to do. It adds insult to injury that the Mayor even denies this is going to happen, despite the proposed cuts clearly set out in his own draft budget!

"London needs a Mayor who understands the need to sustain police officers and is aware of the proposals in his own budget. Sadly under Boris Johnson we have neither."

I think that's basically right Chris. Most of the Mayor's budget goes on transport and policing so that's where he has to make the savings. Of course he can't admit that so he just highlights the minor less controversial savings elsewhere.

"I didn't do it!"It is like having Bart Simpson in charge of London. The phrase is usually about one hand not knowing what the other is doing, but when Mayor does not know what is in the the budget, that is like each finger not knowing what the others are doing.In a way, it is quite good that these guys could not run anything as it will hopefully be obvious to the people that they were duped by "Have I Got News For You"'s Boris Johnson.

Any Idiot can tell you that less Police leads to more crime in a City like London. Will London become a Gotham City : Get rid of a Commissioner for Police " Sir Ian Blair ", employ Ray Lewis as Deputy Mayor even though Boris Johnson was warned about his past criminality and decided to ignore the warnings , then there was theft by another Deputy Mayor and now take away Police . This is a recipe for Disaster and Boris Johnson and his Advisor's are clearly out of their depth and have no real long term vision. Im starting to wonder if Boris Johnson and others in the Conservative ranks really care. Maybe Gothan City will become a reality.

As someone once said to me "The only rule in life is that there's two sort of people in the world. Those who can get away with it. And those who can't". Johnson is of the former. He can give away addresses of journalists to people threatening to beat them up, lie about axeing the South London Line etc etc. He laughs because he can get away with it